Edinburgh Art Festival 2024: 20th Birthday!
The 20th Edinburgh Art Festival opened on Friday, and it’s taking as its theme ‘persistence.’
Launching the Festival at the City Art Centre, which will...
Fringe 2024: In the Lady Garden ⭐⭐⭐
Alice is in a police station cell. She’s 69 years old and she’s mortified. Before we find out what she’s supposed to have done,...
Fringe 2024 – My Greatest Period Ever
‘This will start a revolution for women’ – Constance Hall
Author, folksinger, performer, and 'period preacher' Lucy Peach – of acclaimed TEDx Talk 'The Power...
Fringe 2024 – Apricot ⭐⭐⭐
In June 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned the 1973 judgement in the case of Roe v Wade, which had for over forty years...
Dance Company Grupo Corpo at Edinburgh Playhouse
Somehow with the Olympics taking place concurrently with the Edinburgh Festivals, I feel a sporting metaphor may not be out of place for the...
Fringe 2024 – From Edinburgh Suffragists to the Fringe
A century after Sara Wesker won better pay for women workers the battle for equality in the workplace goes on.
Lottie Walker, who plays the...
Fringe 2024 – Being Yourself And Loving It
Grammy-winning US cellist Leah Coloff says she is delighted to finally be in Edinburgh to perform her Fringe show Super Second Rate.
The life-affirming autobiographical...
Fringe 2024 – Stuffed⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘This is a show about food banks. This is not a show about food.’
There are at least 3,000 food banks operating in the UK....
Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Pool (No Water)⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water) was written between 2005 and 2006. Almost twenty years later, Fuzed Theatre Company are staging it at this year’s...
Actor Gerard Butler spotted in Edinburgh
In August everyone comes to Edinburgh.
That includes Scottish actor Gerard Butler who, although he was born in Paisley, studied law in Glasgow and...
Fringe 2024 – The Sound Inside ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A woman stands alone on a stage. She has a story to tell and she knows how to tell it.
We are about to witness...
Fringe 2024 – The Sound Inside ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A woman stands alone on a stage. She has a story to tell and she knows how to tell it.
We are about to witness...
Paint the town pink on Pink Wednesday
t’s time to paint the town pink once more as Gilded Balloon holds their legendary Pink Wednesday - a 24 hour charity day with £5 tickets for...
The Whistlebinkies’ McGuire provides double helping of music at artSpace@StMarks
Admirers of musician-composer Eddie McGuire can have a double helping of his music this Saturday, 10th August at artSpace@StMarks in Castle Terrace.
Flautist McGuire, who...
Fringe 2024 – Leni’s Last Lament
Having won top awards at the United Solo Festival in New York, Leni’s Last Lament now comes to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Hitler’s controversial filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl,...
Fringe 2024 – Bi-Curious George Queer Planet
Dolphin orgies, intersex snails and gay giraffes… Join award-winning drag king, Bi-Curious George, London's loveable nature boy, as they take a raucous romp through...
Fringe 2024 – LOST…FOUND
On the heels of a major childhood event, K. Lorrel Manning’s LOST…FOUND takes you on a soul-searching, delightfully human roller-coaster ride through music, unlikely heroes and...
Fringe 2024 – Titswingers
Polyamorous queer pirates Anne Bonney and Mary Read earned the title the ‘Hellcats of the Seven Seas’ for their vicious and notorious crimes, but...
Fringe 2024 – House of Cleopatra
The charisma of Beyoncé, the influence of Oprah, and the wealth of the Kardashians.
There was one woman who had it all – and...
Try out The Scottish Storytelling Festival for size
The good thing about The Scottish Storytelling Festival is that it all takes place in the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the Royal Mile -...
Fringe 2024 – Slow Burn ⭐⭐⭐
Yas’s boyfriend Chad is gaslighting her. He’s not replying to her messages and he’s turned his Snapchat location off.
Life isn’t going how she’d...
Chef Dean Banks welcomes diners for first ever à la carte...
Renowned Scottish chef and restaurateur Dean Banks has launched an à la carte menu at the Pompadour, for the first time in the restaurant’s...
EICC teams up with Johnnie Walker and Cold Town Beer as...
A big shout out to the The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), which has transformed into Pleasance at EICC during the Fringe, and is...
Fringe 2024 – Solve it Squad by Tin Can Bros are...
JINKLES CHRIST! A group of former kid detectives return to the scene of their greatest unsolved case: the gruesome murder of their talking dog,...
Edinburgh Comedy Awards are a serious business
Fringe ticket sales are off to a good start according to Nica Burns, CBE, who produces the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
At the awards lunch...
Fringe 2024 – Birdwatching ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A man in the queue for Birdwatching addresses one of theSpaceUK’s female staff,
‘Where are the birds around here then?’
Silence.
‘Just a joke!’
And that is why...
Edinburgh Fringe 2024 – Lessons on Revolution ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In March 1967 London School of Economics students occupy the college’s Old Theatre. In response, the college turns off the lights; the theatre is...
Fringe 2024 – A Little Treat ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It’s early March 2020, and Greg is living his life in New York City. He’s a singing-cycling tour guide. He has a small but perfect...
Fringe 2024 – Celtic Roots ⭐️⭐️⭐️
As the child of parents who loved Celtic music, Aberdeenshire-born Kevin Littlejohn learned at first hand the strong emotions these songs evoke.
Performing from...
Fringe 2024 – Pleasance Theatre open 40th anniversary year with a...
The Pleasance Theatre Trust celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2024 and today’s launch gave a flavour of the incredible programme presented across the Dome,...
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